if melissa john hart is in a film i'm going to watch it and it occurred to me recently that
i've seen a lot of her films with lifetime her more recent releases
one of the very first films i reviewed on my channel 11 years ago was nine dead
but i have seen that many of her films released from around sabrina and given that sabrina is my
one of my greatest of all loves i do have the logo tattooed to my arm i thought it's about
time that i changed that and i started with aunt agatha's apartment the 2003 film this was
for reference out the year sabrina finished i believe this is also called rent control and
it's not very well received it's got 3.8 out of 10 on imdb which is not great and this is considering
this is a film that's got melissa john hart and carmen electra in it and while you should never
rate a film based on the casting let's face it the better the cast the higher the rating
might be this had a real relatively interesting sounding premise but the execution was just
monotonous most of the characters i didn't like and they weren't very well developed but it
does sound interesting so it's written and directed by david eric brenner and
the description from imdb sums it nicely and this says a young iowan couple move into aunt agatha's
rent control department on manhattan in manhattan while looking for an apartment and jobs when
agatha dies six weeks later they decide to keep it a secret and stay so holly moves in with her
partner holly played by melissa john hart moves in with her partner into on to agatha's house
but shortly while they're there aunt agatha died obviously because she was renting this property
now that she's deceased if the authorities find out or the the part the the building owners find
out they're obviously going to kick holly and her partner out and rent the flat to somebody else
but they've moved to manhattan to try and make it as actors they have no job jobs they have no
money so they decide that they just they're not going to tell anybody that agatha died and quite
early on they realized that this is going to be quite tricky certain people have to be involved in
their scheme people within the building will they be able to keep it a secret by the end of the film
it sounded interesting because i thought how you how are you going to manage to do that
but there are a few downfalls first of all the narrative itself the execution is not interesting
the problems they encounter are completely unrealistic there were escapes they could have had
to hide the truth very easily but instead they tried to do this far-fetched things
to mask this death and it just didn't work it was completely unbelievable
the characters themselves were really boring holly i didn't mind holly too much but calvin
i really didn't like i just thought he was exceptionally dull um a little bit annoying
and not really aware of the world around him he was just annoying to watch to be perfectly honest
and agatha i really liked for the very brief amount of time that she was in
it one of my favorite scenes in this actually is when holly realizes the cats are not there
the house is usually the flat it's usually littered with cats and they're not there and then
of course well i won't see what happens next but it's pretty obvious
um i like that scene and that's probably the only scene that i did properly enjoy aside from that
there wasn't really anything in this that i thought was decent
a lot of it is not awful for example the editing is fine the casting is fine the acting is fine
the pacing is fine i don't like what happens but at least it happens at a steady pace
you know the soundtrack is unmemorable but at least it wasn't bad it's rare that i will watch
a melissa john hart film and say virtually nothing positive about it because i love her
and i just love watching her perform but as i said i haven't seen that many from around the
sabrina era so maybe maybe there are some weaker links in the earlier days absolutely nothing to
do with her of course it's just the film the way it's written in her character a little bit as well
and agatha's apartment rent control whatever you want to call it and it is an interesting premise
if you don't take it seriously you might get a little out of it but
for me it's certainly not a film i'm going to be watching again